One Month Old (playing catch up)

Holden how are you already a month old?  I feel like I blinked and now we are here.  You are my sleepy dreamy baby.  If I could guarantee all my babies would be like you, I would have 12 more!  You have such a relaxed, anything goes personality and you sure do love your sleep.  In your entire first month there were only two nights that you woke twice during the night!  What have you been up to at One Month Old?  Let me tell you!

• You had your first bath at 4 days old and hated every minute of it. 
• You had your first outing at one week old.  We walked to the mailbox in the stroller and it was nearly a disaster
• You had your first photo shoot at 9 days old.  You were soooo good except for peeing and pooping all over your momma! Ha!
• At 10 days old you slept from 11PM - 6AM
• At your two week appointment you weighed 7.08 pounds were 20.75 inches long and had a 13.77 inch head circumference
• You had your first St. Patrick's Day and of course wore green :)

• At three weeks old you rolled from your tummy to back for the first time
• You took your first nap in the crib (in your beloved swaddle of course!)

• You went on your first (of many to come!) shopping trip to Target and slept the entire time
• You found your sweet little voice and started "talking" away
• Your eyes are starting to look more blue

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to my amazingly patient, loving, kind, caring, hardworking, handsome husband! 

"A father's calling is eternal, and it's importance transcends time.  It is a calling for both time and eternity."  -Ezra Taft Benson 

 

We love you so much Mr. Pack and are so grateful that you put up with all of our crazy girl drama!  I can't think of anyone better for the job.  Seriously, you are the best.  It absolutely melts my heart every time I see you with our girls--they absolutely adore you and so do I.  Thank you for everything you do for us and all that you are.

I love you forever and always,

The Mrs.

Home Tours - Show us your Master Bedroom

Linking up again today with Kelly's Korner Home Tours!  I missed last week's kitchen tour because, well, our kitchen is my least favorite place in our house and it's hideous nothing worth showcasing--trust me! If you missed our living room tour, you can see it here.

Anyway, I recently made a few changes to our master and it just flows much better now!  I'm really happy with how it turned out and I think I sleep better now too, ha!

This is what you see when you walk in

 Holden's changing table is in our room (the girls room is too small) 

and probably will be until she's out of diapers, ha!  

It's a must have for me because I have a bad back.

 I bought our bedding at Home Goods (on clearance!) two years ago and I still love it!

 These two pictures that hang above our bed are some of my

 absolute favorite that we've ever had taken.  

The sign and frames are from TJ Maxx and ruffle pillow from Pier 1

The view from the other side of the room

   Mr. Pack's side of the bed.  

The plate and baskets I just bought at Home Goods and I LOVE them!

 

I took these pictures forever ago and they've just been sitting in a trunk.  

I pulled them out the other day and put them in these $5 frames from WalMart and voila!  

Personal art that makes a statement for $10? Yes please :)

 My side of the bed

 

 I made Mr. Pack this for our anniversary.  It has our wedding date on it and 

lyrics to our favorite song, "All I Ask of You" from Phantom of the Opera 

which was played at our wedding ceremony.  You can read more about that here.

 Our dresser

 I'm thinking I should move the clock to the other side? What do you think?

 I recently bought the blue mirror and glass votives at Home Goods. 

I like the pop of color it brings

 The beautiful jewelry box Mr. Pack gave me sits on the side of our closet along 

with a picture of Christ that we received at our wedding.

That's our Master Bedroom!  Hope you enjoyed your tour :)

Linking up here: Kelly's Korner

Hopping down the Bunny Trail

Easter this year was wonderful!  We celebrated all weekend long with both of our families.  On Saturday we spent the afternoon with my family which included a super yummy dinner and an Easter egg hunt!  Hattie was so into it this year and loved finding all of the colorful eggs.  It was so much fun watching her skinny legs run around as she was picking up as many eggs as possible. 

 On Sunday we woke bright and early to find that the Easter Bunny had left us all baskets!  Our baskets were filled with some pretty fun things including Mizuno running shoes for the Mrs. and a trip to Vegas for the Mr.  The girls received bows, books, frilly socks and learning cards.  Because this was Holden's first Easter she received her stuffed bunny as well.  We then got dressed and went to church with my mom and then headed up to see Mr. Pack's side of the family.  It just so happened to be Grandpa Lynn's birthday so we not only celebrated Easter but his birthday as well, with the tradition of Score Cake and all! Yum!

I don't know what it is about these two pictures of my Hattie girl, but I adore them.  I almost want to enlarge them and hang them somewhere!  She is such a beauty :)

The Giggle Book

Manhattan has always been very verbal and talked from a very young age.  It always amazes me the things that she comes up with!  She is absolutely hysterical and I die laughing at so many of the things she says and the way she interprets things.  I know that most mom's feel this way, and  recently I came across a cute idea on Pinterest (go figure) that is called the Giggle Book.  It's basically a notebook that you keep track of all the cute and funny things your kids say and then you can give it to them once they get married.  I just loved this idea because of late I have just been keeping a list of "Hattie Says" on random papers and they are bound to get lost if I don't create a giggle book for her!  Anyway here are some of the funnies I have written down so far that I don't want to forget:

Instead of something else: "I want a different else"

During Easter time: "Look at those eggs!  They are SOOO GORGEOUS!"

When I came in from planting flowers in grubby shorts and a t-shirt: "WHAT are you WEARING?!  That looks SILLY!  Find a different else!"  Apparently she was mortified!  Who have I created? Hahahaha!

When we went swimming for the first time this season: "I went swimming with Kaylee and Kennie and I got to wear a swimming soup." aka swimming suit

When deciding what to eat for breakfast: "Umm...I think I want fireweeks!" You know, as opposed to those mini wheats we all love, ha!

"Momma I want checkup with my nuggets." aka Ketchup

"Are we going to the swimming cools today?" aka swimming pools

"Momma I love Sean Pack (long pause...) I like daddy too."

When we were in Las Vegas she saw the Excalibur Castle:  "That is AMAZING!!! It's sooooo BEAUTIFUL!!! Can we go upstairs and see Rapunzel and Cinderella's bed?"  She truly was in awe :)

When she saw the Stratosphere: "Momma look!  It's a big candle!"

This little girl keeps up smiling and laughing everyday with her cuteness!  We love you so much Hattie girl!

Home Tours - Show us your Living Room

I've been on a bit of a blogging hiatus lately but today over at Kelly's Korner, Kelly is kicking off the blogger "Tour of Homes."  I'm kinda nosy and I LOVE to see how others decorate their homes and I figured I would join in on the fun!  If you are not a regular here at The Pack Clan (aka family, ha!) we live in Utah and love every minute of it!  We have been renting our Townhouse for 3 years now and unfortunately we cannot make any major changes. Hence the reason we have white walls, beige carpet and linoleum floors--can you say builders grade everything?! Ha!  Therefore I really like to decorate and hang things on the walls to cover up some of the not so prettiness.  I am by no means an interior designer, but I do enjoy making our home a cozy place for our family and friends.  Without further ado, here is our living room.  Enjoy :)

 This is the view from the couch

 I recently changed up this collage wall when I got the new 11x14 canvas of Holden. 

Mr. Pack is from Texas so I made a canvas in order to represent the Great State. Ha!

 The view walking in the front door

 The view from the dining room

 

 We LOVE this Expedit bookcase from Ikea.  

We actually have two and this one houses all of Hattie's toys

  

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Mission Impossible: Operation Mailbox

When Holden was about a week and a half old I decided it was time for a quick outing.  If you know me I get a little stir crazy if I'm home too much and I really like to get outside.  I hadn't checked the mail since Holden was born and I knew there were some goodies waiting there for us (I may have ordered several things while in the hospital...those late night feedings get me every time!)  Because we live in a town home, the mailbox isn't right outside our door, instead it's about a block away.  So we usually just stroll on over and are home in about 5 minutes--no big deal right?  Wrong.  Apparently things take ten bazillion times longer than you ever thought they would once you have two kids in tow.

First I ran outside to the car to get the stroller out.  Holden was sound asleep when I went out and when I returned not 3 minutes later she was screaming bloody murder--dying of starvation of course.  So I brought the stroller inside and sat down to feed her.

She let me know that she was done by projectile vomiting all over the two of us. Awesome.  Of course now I had to get both of us changed before we could head out the door.  Once all clean I came downstairs to find Hattie rummaging through the pantry because she too had reached the point of starvation.  I had to then baggie up some snacks and water for her to take on the 5 minute journey we were about to embark. 

Once the snacks were prepared, it was now too cold for us to go out without jackets on.  So back upstairs we go to find something a little warmer to wear.  So...by the time I got Holden fed, myself and baby changed, jackets on, stroller set up, girls buckled in with snacks and water in hand it was an hour and a half later!  I didn't know whether to laugh or cry!  It truly felt like we would never make it out the door alive.  Luckily, we made it to the mailbox and back in one piece.  But, let's just say that a "quick trip" is no longer part of our vocabulary. Ha!